A.
Each person operating a boat or vessel shall at all times operate it in a careful manner, having regard of the existing hazards, both actual and potential, and at such rate of speed as not to endanger the property of another or the life or safety of any person or so as to interfere with the free and proper use of the waterway by others.
B.
Speed limits.
(1)
It shall be unlawful to operate a boat at a greater speed than five miles per hour within 200 feet of the shoreline, a dock, raft, float, a moored vessel or channel system.
(2)
A "dead slow no wake" zone shall exist in any area used as a boat basin, marina, anchorage or mooring area and at all entrances thereto and exits therefrom.
(3)
A twelve-mile-per-hour speed zone shall exist, and excessive wake shall be prohibited in all that portion of the state boating channel which is within the Town of Oyster Bay.
(4)
The Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety shall have the authority to impose speed limits in his/her discretion for safety reasons due to weather conditions or anticipated activity in the water (i.e., boating displays, fireworks, holiday events, etc.).
C.
No boat shall be operated in such a manner as to cause a wake which is dangerous to life or limb or a person or to other boats or other property.
D.
No person shall operate a boat or vessel within the waters and waterways of the Town while in an intoxicated condition. Upon the trial of any action or proceeding arising out of facts alleged to have been committed by any person arrested for operating a boat or vessel while in an intoxicated condition, the court may admit evidence of the amount of alcohol in the defendant's blood taken within two hours of the time of his arrest, as shown by a medical or chemical analysis of his breath, blood, urine or saliva. For the purposes of this section:
(1)
Evidence that there was, at the time of taking the sample, 0.05% or less, by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood, is prima facie evidence that the defendant was not in an intoxicated condition.
(2)
Evidence that there was, at the time of taking the sample, more than 0.05% by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood is relevant evidence, but it is not to be given prima facie effect in indicating whether or not the defendant was in an intoxicated condition.
(3)
Evidence that there was, at the time of taking the sample, 0.15% or more, by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood, may be admitted as prima facie evidence that the defendant was in an intoxicated condition.